[LLVMdev] Two suggestions for improving LLVM error reporting

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Sat Jan 9 00:07:09 PST 2010


On Saturday 09 January 2010 06:11:03 Chris Lattner wrote:
> My eventual goal (perhaps for LLVM 3.0) is to eliminate our current
> structural type system altogether.  The benefits are blown away by the
> costs, eventually we should just fix this design mistake.  In the meantime,
> I'm not opposed to adding a Module* to VMCore that type dumping defaults to
> if non-null.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm loving LLVM's structural types and they're 
making my work a lot easier.

Having to come up with names for all of the structural types in my language 
just to satisfy LLVM's new type system would suck...

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